From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Xen 3.0.5 rename to 3.1.0 Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 22:53:14 +0100 Message-ID: <20070502215314.GS9518@redhat.com> References: <20070502213822.GR9518@redhat.com> <20070502214321.GA7917@ventoux.cs.ubc.ca> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070502214321.GA7917@ventoux.cs.ubc.ca> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: cschieli@gmail.com, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, keir@xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:43:21PM -0700, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Wednesday, 02 May 2007 at 22:38, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:33:04PM +0200, C?dric Schieli wrote: > > > Shouldn't the various library sonames (libblktap, libxenctrl, libxenguest, > > > libxutil, libxenstore) also be bumped to 3.1 ? > > > > Why ? Doing that would uneccessarily break any apps built against them. > > As a general rule library so versions should not be artificially tied > > to the software release number. A new software release does not imply > > the library ABI has been changed - so versions should only be changed > > when there is an actual ABI breakage to deal with. > > Apps should only break if the major number changes. Bumping the minor > should be fairly harmless. It usually just indicates that the library > has new functions (but is backward-compatible with anything in the same > major with a smaller minor). Agreed - the .so's are using 3 digits, the first two of which are used by linker. So bumping 3.0.0 -> 3.0.1 would be fine, but the suggested change of 3.0.0 -> 3.1.0 would break things. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|